When github displays the content of a directory, it first shows an index of the files in the directory and then, if available, the content of an optional README.md file. This of course means that one ...

Is there a "what links here" feature for github?
I know its issue management system has something similar implemented. From another issue, if we link to another issue (on github of course) the latter ...

On GitHub I have multiple email addresses. I would like people to contact me using one address (i.e. show this address on my profile), but actually receive email notifications using another. However I ...

I am using GitHub Pages to host my website. I have a PDF file that I want visitors to be able to open directly in a browser. But when I upload the PDF file to GitHub Pages and link to it, it opens in ...

Am I missing something or does Github lack a markdown editor (like the one here that lets me select a text and then click on "B" in the menu above the editor window to make the text bold)? I sometimes ...

I've been looking for a means of removing some status checks created by a CI tool I was evaluating from my pull requests in my GitHub repository, but I haven't had any luck finding a way of achieving ...

I know that I should take ownership of any personal repositories (and gists, etc) they have that might contain company data before removal. However, what's the impact on repositories belonging to an ...

Is there a way to embed a GitHub repo overview (showing its stats, creator and description, etc.) into a webpage?
In Slack, if you paste a GitHub repo URL, it will show the repo description and user ...

ghtorrent.org is a website that hosts a database of information collected from GitHub. The site has a webapp for querying the database remotely called DBLite.
Whenever I try to create an account on ...

How can I click-out my way to "Plans and pricing" page? Is there any link leading to this page on my repo's page or anywhere else? I can't see it in standard GitHub footer.
Each time I need to open ...

We have a lot of engineering documentation stored in a shared repo wiki. The repo itself, though, is private (i.e. part of an organization).
Although there is functionality in the wiki to search for ...

Wondering if there's an easy GUI way to convert a branch into a completely separate repository in Github Enterprise?
We had some less experienced people do our Subversion to Github migration back a ...

I am trying to add text formatted in a special way to a GitHub repo on README.md file but it is not rendering the text format the way I want it.
I have attached images below.
I want it to look like ...

My question related to the Github.com web interface only. Similar to this question (Create a folder in GitHub via the web interface), is it possible to upload files to a GitHub repository using only ...

On the Github Enterprise system, is there a way to make "private" the default mode for repositories?
We're setup to allow both our normal internal users as well as certain vendors to have access to ...

When using GitHub, I sometimes list several users with the @ sign to indicate that they should look at e.g. a pull request. The other day, I did this with about 20 people, and some of them were not ...

So I do have a github account which has my personal stuff, but it also is a part of the 'organization' I have at work.
Now - the work stuff is sensitive. I really care about it being secure. I want ...

When looking at a commit in Github, I want to see the value of the "Author" field in the commit. As far as I can tell, Github will only show me the Github username. Too see the author field, I need ...

I am trying to automate links to commits in Github Enterprise from our issue tracking system (TargetProcess). The commit hash is already referenced in TP and I'd like to make it clickable so that it ...

I would like to send notifications to a specific set of users when a new version of our software is released.
People who 'watch' the repository get notifications for releases from GitHub, but I would ...

I'm learning about Git and GitHub as server. I read threads about cloning and forking differences, because their are similar.
I can clone a public repository locally, then create a new one on GitHub, ...

I have a private repository on GitHub. Is it possible for me to grant someone read access to the repository so that they can make changes in their own branch and submit pull requests which I can then ...